This dissertation is at the intersection of sociology of law, international law, and human rights, exploring the factors leading to the adoption of policy measures in transitional justice settings. Relying on interview data and analysis of legal archives, this dissertation recon…
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The historic summer of 2020 in the United States was described by many as a “racial reckoning.” In the weeks following the murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis Police, polling showed up to 26 million U.S.-Americans taking to the streets to support Black Lives Matter and to …
This thesis studies officials in the government of Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos (2012–2018), a liberal politician whose central policy was a peace process with the FARC-EP guerrilla (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army), which sought to end fifty years…
Libya is in a state of transition following the Arab Spring revolution of 2011. Because Muammar Al-Gaddafi’s dictatorship imposed structural violence, direct violence, and cultural violence, causing many injustices and human rights violations, as well as the violent nature of th…
This dissertation is a comparative study on policy formulation processes of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) approach of three cases in Africa. At the centre of this inquiry are the issues of the replication of the TRC-approach across borders, and the policy formula…
Post-violence periods present sub-Saharan African countries emerging from violence with the challenges of social reconstruction, the rebuilding of peace and the redressing of legacies of human rights violations. To respond to these challenges, these countries are increasingly ut…
In 2009, Bangladesh's Awami League began a process to try `collaborators' for their alleged crimes during the 1971 Liberation War. This single case study approach focuses on the nearly forty years between 1971 and 2009 in an attempt to understand why transitional justice was del…
Based on testimony and documentation in the archives of Timor-Leste and Indonesia, participant observation and interviews with key actors in the transitional justice process, this study seeks to document and analyze the fate of the thousands of stories that were given by the Tim…
This dissertation examines the politics of post-conflict justice in the former Yugoslavia. It discusses the protagonistic role of human rights activists in challenging existing transitional justice models that emphasize international and domestic war crimes trials over restorati…
Mechanisms of transitional justice are used by post-conflict societies emerging from authoritarianism or civil wars as they confront the crimes and injustices of the past. Vetting is one of many transitional justice mechanisms that aim to purify the public sphere of former regim…
A partir do processo de abertura política no Brasil, na década de setenta, releituras e interpretações da memória da ditadura militar (1964-1985) tiveram início, gerando uma trajetória de disputas acerca do que deveria ser lembrado e também do que deveria ser esquecido. No entan…
This study is an attempt to explain adoption and implementation of transitional justice mechanisms in post-Suharto Indonesia (1998–). In latecomer democracies, the internationalized context of transitional justice, working through international pressure and diffusion of ready-ma…
Inconvenient Justice argues for a more nuanced understanding of the dynamic "local" that goes beyond the realm of a cultural framework. Correspondingly, it suggests that conceptualization of the "local" needs to be problematized further to expose the tensions and hierarchies of …
The urgency of gendering transitional justice, and indeed larger peacebuilding exercises, cannot be overstated. How does the introduction of gender perspectives in transitional justice shape the status of women in a transitioning society? And how can gender sensitivity be mainst…